Get out the bikes! Gas $4.09/gal in Seattle.

[KnottedYet]

On the way home from church I passed a station with gas for $4.09/gal. (Lake City Spirit station on 125th) First time I've seen it over $4 here. The station nearest me has it for $3.99.

But what's a penny among friends, eh?

[surgtech1956]

Last week here in Michigan it went from $3.48 to $3.70 and now it down to $3.62.

[shootingstar]

wow. But I must admit I haven't paid attention to gasoline prices for over 1/4 century.

I'm not kiddin'. After I learned that in our building one pays over $15,000 to own a parking stall...even less incentive for us.

[KnottedYet]

wow. But I must admit I haven't paid attention to gasoline prices for over 1/4 century.

I'm not kiddin'. After I learned that in our building one pays over $15,000 to own a parking stall...even less incentive for us.

Good for you. I'm duly impressed.

[shootingstar]

Knotted: Several years ago, I owned my own condo and its parking spot. It was a pkg. deal.

For the first few years, I didn't even bother to figure out where my own parking spot was...that blew away my partner. He wasn't living with me at that time...

But I figure I better investigate...before someone else stole my parking spot.

I also owned a place 1/2 block away from the subway station. In cycling seasons, I biked most of the time. Subway was handy for snowy/lousy weather.

Right now, we live a 15-min. walk away from the closest commuter train station. Next year there will be another one just as close but in a different direction, going to more places.

More choices and my bikes (3). Who cares about gasoline..especially if one doesn't have young children.

[Aggie_Ama]

My husband had the pump cut him off at $90 when he was filling up his truck Friday. He loves that truck but is trying to find ways to keep it parked as much as possible. My tiny Dodge Caliber has a 13.5 gallon tank, I filled it up Saturday for over $43 and it wasn't empty yet.

Needless to say, our bikes are on the back of my car for our hybrid commute tomorrow. We will park half way (13 miles for me, 10 miles for him) and ride to work. At this point we haven't even bought commuters, our bikes are far from the ideal commuters but he has already done it twice. This will be my maiden voyage. We figure only commuting 3 days a week will save us around $40 a week with gas prices right now.

[KnottedYet]

And that $40/week can be used to buy BIKE GOODIES!!!!

Whooo-hooooo!

[F8th637]

And that $40/week can be used to buy BIKE GOODIES!!!!

Whooo-hooooo!

And that's $2080 a year. . which is a VERY nice bike!

[Geonz]

That was my thought sitting on the train going to Chicago and thinking "do I need a folder?" and how kewl it would be to have one with me... but ... hunnerts of dollers...
But... it's 1/30 of the price o fa car.
I've got that Dahon now ... our gas is only about 3.50 ...

[deedolce]

I certainly am very conscious of combining trips or doing without completely!

I see so many more bikes now, even in bike friendly Davis. Actually a good thing, I see more families, when a year or two ago, it was just the die hard commuters.

If anything, I'm thinking of getting a touring bike, that I can put my racks and panniers on, so I can go longer afield comfortably, and shop in neighboring towns of Dixon, Woodland, Vacaville!

[KnottedYet]

Like this?

[kelownagirl]

I love Kelowna but it's not very easy to commute here. I could never go without a car, probably not even for a week...

[smilingcat]

maybe I better order one of these before everyonoe else get the same idea.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=22829

I'm seriously thinking of the Bionx wheel. With this, I could commute and add a pannier and do most all my chores around town like shootingstar.

I showed the Bionx to one of my co-worker. He is bit nutty, bit of a survivalist. gun totin you name it. Funny thing. He recently bought a 2kW soloar PV system with an inverter. Now he is thinking of getting the Bionx bike. Said he will test ride oh today. He is just getting really angry with his commute cause he drives an F350/3500 monster truck. there are two or three others like him at my office. extended truck with crew/king cab 4 wheel drive. Some kind of diesel engine blah blah blah and they are all singing the blues.

And yes I paid $4.09 for regular in San Luis Obispo yesterday.

Smilingcat

[shootingstar]

It just dawned upon me...I never thought about it until now.. each of my partner's adult children (nearing 30), have never owned/leased a car yet.

Each of them do live close to public transit and they use it often. After the divorce, my partner gave up car ownership completely. And chose to live in a place close to public transit, services and stores. By then, the children were teenagers. So they used public transit to get to his place. This is a city of over 2 million people.

Now at this time, each with their own places, they walk probably at least 1-2 kms. every few days or more often on a weekly basis to do stuff. Or occasionally taxi. No, they don't bike at this time. He might have suggested once...and quickly gave up.

So I guess, if you include a generational thing of non-car ownership /non-car use, here's one example...but something that just evolved naturally over time.

When there is mass public transit strike as it happened in Toronto (several times) and Vancouver, that's when you do find out how many people don't have cars or cannot use a car for themselves (because someone else in family needs it.)

and Kelownagirl...I guess we'll find out how sprawly Kelowna is...we'll be there in June..there's a cycling meeting where the Kelowna advocacy cycling reps. will be talking about their local situation.

[RoadRaven]

Well... you still have cheaper fuel than us DownUnder

I am paying NZ$2.02 for 1 litre of high octane petrol for my toyota corolla.

There are 4.5 litres to a gallon, so that is NZ$9.09 per gallon

On today's currency conversion (converted at an online bank just a couple of minutes ago) that is...

drrrrum rrrrroll....

US $7.07 for a gallon of petrol in New Zealand!